Pamela Ramalingam

Agile Evangelist

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Pamela Ramalingam

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Pamela Ramalingam is a senior level Executive with a 26 year management career providing operating, strategic and business leadership across diverse domains such as Banking & Financial Services Product Lifecycle Management, Defence, Security, Simulation, Aerospace and Health Care. She has worked in leading British, American and Indian MNC's such as Standard Chartered Bank- UK, Thales - France, eFunds - USA, Tata Consultancy Services - India, Selerant Corp - USA and iSoft PLC - UK.

Pam is an Agile Technology Evangelist who has passionately applied Agile principles across both IT & non IT Domains. She has led over 250 Agile programs successfully in UK, India, Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. She has driven agile training for over a 1000 participants in IBM, Accenture, Standard Chartered Bank, Barclays Bank,Statestreet, Corvesta & a host of other organizations. She continues as an Agile Evangelist & mentor with Accenture and HCL StateStreet among others.

She has also been deeply involved with Strategic Management, Operations, Process Engineering, outsourcing & Change Management, all with an Agile touch !

Operations Management: She supports Selerant Corp as an Indian Director providing PLM solutions for process industries. She was the COO for Thales Software India R & D Centre, a wholly owned ODC of the 12.7 billion Euros Thales Group, headquartered in France. She led the Core Banking Program across Indian sub-continent and was part of the core Program Management Team in the ISMS (Information Systems Multi Sourcing) Program which bought in 70% of StanChart Bank applications worldwide into India. In a previous avatar, she led the National Health Service Program (UK) as Program Director, the largest civilian program worldwide.

Process Engineering: She created a Process Engineering COE with re-engineered QMS Lite including Agile methodologies such as XP, pair programming, and SCRUM . She led and provided ROI for quality & process at global level for StanChart across 52 countries

Outsourcing & Change Management: Led full cycle Outsourcing engagements for Stanchart, Thales and iSoft from Business Case build to Benefits Management. This included a portfolio of Vendor /Resource Management including large `blended' engagements with Blue Chip Indian IT organizations such as TCS and HCL.

Being Agile in the `Real' World

schedule 2 years ago

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45 mins

Experience Report

Intermediate

Agile has been around for several decades and a common misnomer has been that it is irrevocably tied into the `IT' or virtual world.

But Agile as a methodology can well be applied in the `real' brick and mortar world as well. Being Agile infact is a core competency that most organizations need to exhibit in this fast paced, `Kill or be Killed' corporate world.

It is also a sad fact that most Agile `gurus' are adept at principles and concepts but fail to apply the fundamental tenets of Agile into the real world. Enduring principles such as Vision translation into Business Value, face to face collaboration , Release planning, estimation, tracking & reporting can well be applied across manufacturing and other service organizations to reap the benefits of agile adoption.

This session outlines the principles applied in several non It organizations such as Banking and manufacturing Operations and the learnings & Best practices gleaned from them.